Nandhan Film Overview: Period Saravanan’s Nandhan is ready in a small village in Tamil Nadu the place solely folks from a single caste have come into energy because the village head. The truth that elections have by no means been held there’s thought-about a matter of delight by the folks residing within the village, the place the oppressors proceed to carry full energy of their palms whereas the oppressed haven’t any say in any way.
In such a setting lives Ambedkumar (M Sasikumar), a labourer who’s past loyal to the village head, Kopulingam (Balaji Sakthivel), for whom he works. Even when Kopulingam mistreats him, Ambedkumar is consistently taking the previous’s aspect and defending him, even towards his spouse Selvi (Suruthi Periyasamy). However when the single-caste rule of the village is challenged by Dalit reservation and when Kopulingam is compelled to provide away his place of Panchayat President to somebody from the oppressed caste, issues get out of hand.
Kopulingam and the folks of his caste are aggravated that these they take into account to be beneath them are taking on the put up of the president, for which they’ve had the monopoly for years. However the movie glosses over this annoyance slightly than delving deeper into it. Instantly after discovering out that the Panchayat President’s seat will now be a reserved one, Kopulingam is looking out for an ‘ideally suited candidate’. The next scenes of Kopulingam and people with him selecting and speaking about who might be the best president work properly for laughs but additionally don’t assist in establishing the gravity of all of it.
Subsequently, he decides that Ambedkumar can be the ‘ideally suited candidate’, as his definition of the time period is somebody who will stay fiercely loyal to him. Often, in a movie that requires change and that has a lead protagonist, the lead character’s arc and their taking up the mantle of change are closely necessary. In Nandhan, the location of the scene when the protagonist really takes a stand for himself and his neighborhood is fascinating. However even when he does that, we overlook the character’s inner transformation, as simply two minutes earlier than that, he was able to do one thing totally totally different. All through the movie, Ambedkumar acts as per what others inform him, together with his spouse, his fellow villages, and Kopulingam. The movie fails to allow us to get into his head and make us perceive how the phrases and actions of others are affecting him; that is very true for the massive scene on the finish.
Moreover, the scenes the place we see a main character mendacity on the street after assembly with an accident and one other by which a personality is mercilessly crushed up bare are disturbing. However the issue with these scenes of inflicting torture is that these moments come throughout as if they’ve been curated for a shock worth for the viewers slightly than to totally show the gravity of those characters’ plight.
Coming over to the performances, M Sasikumar and Suruthi Periyasamy are given underwritten characters and there’s hardly something they may have finished to raise what’s on paper (and the on-the-face brownfacing doesn’t assist both). Balaji Sakthivel, who performs a casteist and boastful man, and Samuthirakani, in a quick look, have one-dimensional roles at their disposal.
All in all, Nandhan is a movie with good intent made on a critical topic that has its moments, particularly on the comedy entrance. Nevertheless, the movie falls wanting successfully portraying the world it’s set in and the character that inhabits it. After all, the movie doesn’t make a parody of its characters however with the topic it offers with and the actors who’re a part of it, the movie may have been a way more participating watch than the forgetful watch it ended up being.